The girls love Harley, so here we have one.
This is the first figure we've tried from the Mattel DC Universe line. It's a build-a-figure series (seemed to work well for the Marvel Legends, I guess), so we are now the proud owners of a Grodd head and torso with wires coming out of it; since we're not planning to get anything else from this set, I guess the mad-scientist action figures will get to play with it.
Harley is an actual toy, which isn't really the case with a lot of the DC Direct stuff (much as I love it), so it's not surprising that she's far more playable than most of our other DC figures. Her arms are kind of spindly (not toned or muscular, and Harley is fairly athletic so they really should be), which is a concern because it could be a weak point in the figure--I'll point it out to the kids so they'll be careful. Otherwise the proportions are decent.
She's fairly well articulated, bending at the waist, elbows, knees, hips and shoulders. The arms extend out, and the hips do as well, somewhat. The waist turns and there's free head movement. You can also turn her legs mid-thigh, which gives more posing variation than you'd think. She can sit, which is often an issue, so that's a plus.
And she's not a bad looking figure. She is a bit shorter than a lot of the DC Direct figures, which I'm assuming means that the scale for this line is 6-inch. Her face has a blue tint to it, which is a little confusing. And the costume looks good--a reasonable compromise between playability and appearance, I think.
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